You have asked whether you may accept the position as chairperson of
a Junior League's ways and means committee. In that capacity your function
would be confined to reviewing and planning fund raising activities but
would not be involved in direct fund raising.

Eight members of the committee have formed the view that Canon 5B(2)
prohibits you from accepting the appointment.

Two members of the committee would not find a prohibition against serving
as the chairman of the organization's ways and means committee as long as
the solicitation of funds is not among the chairman's responsibilities.
Another committee member would find it appropriate for you to serve in that
capacity so long as your name and status were not identifies with fund raising.

In short, notwithstanding the limited role you would perform in the League's
fund raising objectives and efforts, the committee's conclusion is that
Canon 5B(2) prohibits your participation in the program.

The committee is expressly charged with rendering advisory opinions interpreting
the application of the Code of Judicial Conduct to specific circumstances
confronting or affecting a judge or judicial candidate. Its opinions are
advisory to the inquiring party, to the Judicial Qualifications Commission
and to the judiciary at large. Conduct that is consistent with an advisory
opinion issued by the committee may be evidence of good faith on the part
of the judge, but the Judicial Qualifications Commission is not bound by
the interpretive opinions issued by the committee. Petition of the Committee
on Standards of Conduct for Judges 327 So2d 5 (Fla. 1976).